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Stack Layers of This and That For Our Vine Challenge

We're thrilled to have stop-motion animator Hampus Hagman as our guest-host for this week's Mashable Vine Challenge. The theme is layers, so stack up those books, papers, blocks and flapjacks, and share your six-second videos.

Hagman is a freelance writer in Sweden, currently working on a Ph.D. in film studies. He learned about Vine last year while writing a story about fellow Swedish animator, Daniel Ojanlatva. Soon enough, Hagman was devoting all of his free time to making Vine videos. "There's a great community of people on the app, and some really extraordinary talent," he said. "Now I'm Vining more than writing."

You'll see that in most of his Vine videos, Hagman works solely with paper. But rather than printing images from the Internet, he uses hand-cut shapes and scraps from second-hand books and magazines.

Awhile back, Hagman was a graffiti artist; this explains his interest in creating such collage-like art. "What really got me hooked on Vine was the realization that I could use it to cook up all of my interests — fashion, art, film and music — into little loops of moving images," he said.

Hagman doesn't consider himself a narrative Vineographer. Instead of telling stories, he is more interested in conveying a mood, emotion or atmosphere in six seconds. "My Vines don't really have a punchline or a point," he said. "It's more about finding what looks and sounds good."

Upload your Vine videos by Tuesday, May 6 at 10 a.m. ET, using the hashtag #LotsOfLayers. Hagman will choose his favorite submissions to feature on Mashable.

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